Comments on: Wil Wheaton Advises Trekkies To ‘Relax’ Over New Star Trek Movie

By: Schweitzer

Schweitzer — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:13:56 +0000

…and Wheaton says:
It was all stuff that I’ve seen already, but it looked cool and everyone in the theater loved it. You know, a lot of my fellow Trekkies are all worked up because the trailer shows all this action stuff, and I keep hearing people dismissively calling it “Star Trek: 90210” just because there are young people in it or something. I really hope those guys can take a step back and realize a couple of things: these trailers and previews aren’t aimed at us; they’re aimed at teenagers, so they have to be presented in a language that they understand.

… for the first time I disagree with him.

This new ST doesn’t have to include 90210 teenagers and action because it needs to be “presented in a language they understand.”

TOS was a big hit with teens when it first started and TOS had a bunch of “middle-aged” guys like Kirk and Scotty and McCoy and Sulu.
Yet teens still dug it.

So I think it’s BS that Trek has to be “90210′d” in order to appeal to today’s kids. And if I’m wrong, if today’s kids can’t get ST for what it is…
aw, screw ‘em.

By: Elaan_of_Elas

Elaan_of_Elas — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48:26 +0000

#21 – you miss the point. It’s the screwing with canon that’s annoying most of the people who are being negative about the movie, not the fact that their fave characters are being re-cast.

By: YARN

YARN — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:31:45 +0000

If we should not complain about the film without having seen it, neither we should not simply accept that the film is great (so STFU Trek fans) without having seen it.

By: Spock

Spock — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:17:13 +0000

It’s probably going to be a piece of shit, but they’re still getting my money so who cares?

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:08:38 +0000

#7 sez “Trek fans: just be glad our franchise didn’t go the way of many others: death by corporate boardroom decision. We have kept it alive. We can continue to keep it alive.”

The situation is better than that, though, because the truth is, we don’t have a franchise. We have Star Trek, and Star Trek is a heck of a lot bigger than any mere collection of trademarks, copyrights and cowardly bean-counters. Paramount, for better or worse, has the franchise … but Star Trek has survived in years of vacuum when the franchise was functionally deceased. Star Trek doesn’t _need_ the franchise. If the franchise dies forever, Star Trek will live on.

By: Alec

Alec — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:53:32 +0000

To 83. T.U.M. – February 21, 2009:

No; I am not mistaken. And your comments don’t refute mine. I claimed that the TNG crew never came close to the status in popular culture of the original crew. In other words, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Uhura, etc., are more famous than Picard, Riker, Data, Worf, Troi, etc. This is obviously true. (This partly explains why Paramount have returned to the beginning, to Kirk and crew, and not continued with those average-bad TNG movies that very few people watched.) Picard, of course, is well-known; the other members of his crew, progressively less so. To illustrate: the average film-goer (not a Trekkie) has heard of Uhura, but not Troi!

You are probably correct when you say that ‘TNG was ONE of the highest rated shows ever in syndication, and had the most mainstream appeal of any Star Trek SERIES [my emphasis]’. But that has little, if any, bearing on what I claimed.

By: Mark Lynch

Mark Lynch — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:22:58 +0000

#83
Couldn’t agree more. Some people seem to forget that fact. Why did the films fail?
Probably because the powers that be tried to make them action packed. On the show it was ultimately the story and the acting which carried everything.
If you need proof, I refer you to one of the best if not the best TNG episode ever made, ‘The Inner Light’

Simply put, a bloody great story. One which reduces me to tears every time I view it.

By: Dif

Dif — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:37:20 +0000

DOCTOR WHO.

That is all.

By: Darrell Kaiser

Darrell Kaiser — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:06:07 +0000

SHUT UP, WESLEY! Just kidding!

By: T.U.M.

T.U.M. — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:53:39 +0000

>>The TNG crew never came close to the status in popular culture of the original crew. <<

Are you kidding? TNG was one of the highest rated shows ever in syndication, and had the most mainstream appeal of any Star Trek series.